By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
As an Aquila customer, I'm extremely glad that this poorly run utility is dead, absorbed by Great Plains Energy. I just wish Aquila's board of directors would stop rewarding CEO Rick Green with undeserved bonuses.
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Regarding proposed Johnson County sales tax increase for public safety.
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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
(Updated at 2:30 p.m. with Sprint comments.)
Call it the Sprint Shocker.
Led by Overland Park, Johnson County cities will have to refund millions of sales-tax dollars to the county's largest employer over the next year or so. Road projects will be delayed. Citizen services will be affected. Why?
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Federal jurors did the best they could with the great T-shirt controversy of 2008. They created losers all around.
The jurors fined Joe-College.com, the Lawrence company that sold some offending shirts. The jurors also told uppity University of Kansas officials that they couldn't control all the shirts sold by the company.
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Many pluses and minuses have surfaced in four seasons of living downtown.
A minus in the spring: The absence of birds loudly singing before sunrise. That sound was always a sign of life awakening from winter’s deep sleep. I loved it during 28 years of homeownership.
By Steven O'Hern, Reader Advisory Panel 2008
Jonathan Raban, a columnist for The Guardian argues that the presidential campaign has allowed Americans to turn away from Iraq, terrorism, and the fallout from 9/11. But, he asks, how long will the holiday last?
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
University of Missouri systems President Gary Forsee dropped an intriguing tip this week when announcing the appointment of Leo Morton as interim chancellor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
President Bush declared Tuesday that the government should not be involved in “bailing out companies.” But in the case of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, such sentiments are far too late to matter.
A telling sound followed this week’s announcement that a Kansas City businessman will temporarily hold the top job at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Silence.
Not so long ago, the howls of protest would have been deafening. The quiet general approval that greeted the naming of former Aquila Inc. executive Leo Morton as interim chancellor is evidence of much improved relationships between the campus and civic communities.
